Is it time for your business to EXPAND to the online market? We Can Get You There! visit us at www.nanowebgroup.com Author: nanowebgroup Keywords: website design online stores expand business graphic animation video on the web merchant services Added: March 7, 2008
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Zhen Huang - Aardvark Pest Control Services Logo in motion
This is a School Project i did for Communication Design course in Alberta College of Art and Design with Illustrator CS3, Toon Boom 2, and IMovie6. It is a motion graphic project that designed for a company “Aardvark pest control services” Enjoy Author: draniel8211 Keywords: zhen huang aardvark logo design illustration acad graphic animation cartoon motion graphics entertainme Added: March 25, 2008
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Passion Overdrive Digital Services
Passion Overdrive Digital Services is dedicated to providing various businesses with an affordable, multifaceted approach to a personalized marketing solution. The solution consists of determining the best way to design and promote each client’s specifications through the services we provide. Web and Graphic Design Wide Format printing Logo Design or Enhancement Corporate Branding Booth Fabrication and Lighted Signage Browse through our website for more information and ideas, or e-mail us: info@passion-digitaldesigns.com or call/text us +639189283004 or +639282767562 Author: mikeportes Keywords: web design budget tarpaulin printing wide format graphic designing digital art logo services video blog random Added: March 9, 2008
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Creativity Podcast Series- #2 Amber Nussbaum
This podcast is the second in a series of podcasts with highly creative people. I am interested to see if there is anything to learn from creative people in terms of reforming education, especially as it relates to digital and media literacy. Amber Nussbaum is a  24 year old graphic designer for a Fortune 500 transportation company and my oldest daughter. She is without a doubt one of the most creative people I know. In this podcast she shares her own thoughts on creativity, her growth as a blogger (she has been at it for 8 years), and her memories about receiving her education as an unschooler. Here are Amber’s Show Notes:1. Amber introduces herself. 2. Examples of the creative projects and venues with which she finds herself involved. 3. Amber describes some of her home improvement projects and the magazines that have featured her work.4.She defines creativity: "Looking at what you enjoy most in life and putting that as an outward manifestation of yourself."5. Amber started blogging at 16. She didn’t know that was what it was called at the time. It started as a Web site where she would post her poetry and her ideas trying to find her voice. She had something to say and wanted a place to gather her thoughts. She wasn’t as concerned about audience when she got started as she was about documenting her thoughts.6. Next, she moved to Moveable Type, she has been using it since the first version became available. She began promoting local band’s shows and would post news, pics and blog about upcoming shows and after show performance reviews.That was when Amber’s site really started getting some real traffic. She wrote for BlogCritics.org for awhile, writing record reviews.But then when she switched Web hosts she lost a lot of her files and took her site down from frustration.7. Aug. 2004 she put her domain back up. She describes her blog as a mishmash of her life and creations. But rather than just blogging as a journal or diary, she uses her blog to document her life in photography and as a way to help others learn how to do the projects she has recently mastered herself.8. Amber averages about 1500 unique hits per day. (After this podcast recording Life Hacker featured an artsy home improvement project she did and she got 6000 hits in one day.)9.  Amber helps out artists who display their wares on Etsy.com, a site with all original pieces by independent artists. Typically, she will feature one item and it will sell in a few hours due the numbers of readers looking at what she posts. Amber says it is satisfying to feel she is helping the artist while giving the person who buys the object a beautiful piece of art and giving her readers something lovely to look at on her blog.10. Amber describes how her unconventional schooling experience helped her to become the self-directed, creative thinker she is today. She credits he way she was taught for her ability to think critically. People will say to her, "Oh you are a knitter… Where can I take a knitting class?" Amber  didn’t know how to respond as she never took a knitting class. She believes in using books, the Web, and folks in her network online to learn new things. Just like she use to do in her homeschool.11. Amber encourages us all to go after things yourself rather than depending on someone to teach you. She describes how the web provides community and how by reading "do it yourself" information found on other like-minded blogs, she has made real life friends. Some folks say that socializing on computers distances you from true human touch. But Amber argues that it is not so today with blogs and other social networking sites. She connects with others all the time who like the same things she does. No matter how obscure what you are into is– the web will help you find others who love it too.12. Amber shares how her early experiences online shaped her Internet use today. Only old people used Telenet and talked about it, no one her age. But she knew about it and connecting with others online in 1993 in our homeschool got her attention. She felt invested in the Internet as a communication medium.13. The creative process for Amber begins with being somewhere and seeing something wonderful and taking out her camera and capturing the moment and then coming back and blogging about it. Often her real life experiences will inspire her creations. In terms of her Web site, Amber fears that some might think it is "nerdy" but pretty much all the time she lives her life thinking this moment would be cool to post about. She likes sharing her experiences online.14. How can creativity improve education overall? Amber shares creative lessons she remembers from her middle school experience. "Giving a kid a camera is giving them power. The power to create." She recalls having to be "in character" all day as part of a book report project.15.Teachers might be intimidated by giving their students the amount of control over their learning she had in her educational experience.But Amber feels that being in charge of her learning helped her graduate in the top spot of her college class. Her education taught her to make decisions.16.Amber compares college "read a book and take a test" to the more organic way she learned in our home. She said when you are vested in the learning process, you want to learn.17. Amber describes the learning experience of going different places… being there and doing it.  "Retention is amazing when you are taught like that."18. She feels college should be more project-based. She describes an engaged, creative lesson done in one of her art history classes.19. The most incredible moment of the interview was when Amber called me a dynamic instructor who is passionate about what she is teaching. It was a defining moment for me, both as her teacher and her mother.20. A passionate teacher is "that teacher"- passion makes the difference!21. Forced learning doesn’t appeal to Amber at all, even in the world of work. If you feel vested then you are going to be 100% there in the process making it happen.22. Her theme is "If you feel you have a stake in what you are doing you are going to give it your all."23. Since she has an authentic audience via her blog she puts more into refining her writing. She feels this would work for students as well.  24. Problem/project- based learning requires more work from the teacher– but cool things will come out of it. Teachers will have to give more of themselves, but it will make the product more valuable. Being creative means taking risks.26. "How many of you remember stuff you did in the 6th grade? Well I do. Because I was a part of the learning. I was in charge."27.Give a kid responsibility and they will act responsible. Give them the opportunity to create. Listen to the interview in MP3 format
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Mechanism Design Reel
www.MechanismDigital.com The backbone of Motion Graphics is Design. Our graphic design team is second to none producing impactful design packages for Network Promos, Show Opens, Branding Campaigns, Commercial Projects, and Corporate Identity Systems. Mechanism Digital Studios is your “go-to” full service production resource in NYC specializing in Digital Productions. Broadcast 2D/3D Animation, Graphics, Design, Visual Effects, Editing, Post and VFX Supervision. A 20 creative seat studio with a solid reputation in the industry. Our work ranges from Commercial to Entertainment spanning all media types. In our thirteenth year serving the Film and Television community, New Media, Interactive and Special Events. Taking projects from creative concept through final delivery, Mechanism’s award-winning team of artists, directors, and producers: write, design, story board, shoot, animate, edit, and integrate visual-effects. Founded by Lucien Harriot and supported by a team of award-winning animators, effects artists and filmmakers, Mechanism has defied the boundaries of conventional production and project strategizing for over twelve years. Mechanism’s position has long been “We’re here to produce anything you can’t shoot” — and we continue to live up to that promise. Mechanism Digital Inc. is the largest 2D/3D creative boutique in NYC offering cutting edge “solutions & sizzle” to the film and television industry for over 12 years. The studio offers a hands-on approach to its clients, finding and developing creative solutions for each project, with topnotch talent in-house. The open communication and collaborative environment enables the team to work together simultaneously and seamlessly on a wide range of projects. The studio often has multiple series in house at any given time developing/creating original content for programming, show opens, graphics packages and promos for all the major networks. Depending on the project, Mechanism Digital fluctuates from a core staff of five to twenty five artists and producers working on multiple projects, from television commercials to episodic series, corporate communications, interacitive/new media and special events/ venues. Author: lucienharriot Keywords: animation commercial design spot reel mechanism film art Added: March 13, 2008
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A Look Ahead: Developing the Skills Needed to Get a Job When You Graduate
Even though it is the start of a new school year, it doesn’t hurt to look ahead to what awaits the senior class when they graduate and start looking for a job. Better yet, those with a few years to go should be looking ahead and acquiring the skills that will make them employable. In that pursuit, it might help to look at the University of Georgia’s James M. Cox Jr. Center for International Mass Communication Training and Research’s Annual Survey of Journalism and Mass Communication Graduates for 2006, which found that the job recovery that started two years ago for communication and journalism positions has now stalled (pdf of survey results). “Graduates of U.S. journalism and mass communication programs confronted a weakened job market in 2006 and early 2007,” according to Lee B. Becker, director of the Cox Center and professor of journalism in UGA’s Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication. But it isn’t all bad news, while benefits are in decline (for all workers), salaries for graduates with full-time jobs increased and even outpaced inflation slightly. Before you get too depressed, remember that the best and brightest will still find a job. They will just need the skills that employers are looking for. The survey gave some clues as to what those skills are.  Here are the skills that employed graduates reported using in their jobs:   Write, report and edit for print 38 percent Still camera 15.4 percent Write, report and edit for broadcast 14.5 percent Photo imaging 9.2 percent Video camera 8.1 percent Designing and creating computer graphics 8.9 percent Video camera 8.1 percent Produce content for mobile device 1.6 percent   Looking at these numbers you might think that you should specialize in writing, editing and reporting for print.  But I would say that while you MUST have the skills that are used most, having skills like producing content for video and mobile devices might make you stand out from the crowd and win the job.  Most communication professionals are looking for ways to include these new skill sets and many don’t have them.  An entry-level employee with these skills in hand looks attractive. I know this because in my consulting business I am often hired by these same senior managers to do the jobs for which they haven’t developed the skill sets in house.  As a new graduate, you can save your company a lot of money (hiring people like me) by bringing these skills with you. So, join your school television station, learn graphic and web design by getting an internship or helping a non-profit, learn how to take and edit photos at the school newspaper…and so on. What skills do you think you need to get a job and how do you plan to get them?  Let’s share ideas and resources to help your fellow students and those that will come in the future.  Share This: email to others, bookmark to del.icio.us, etc.
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The Sterling Group - Dance Demo
The Sterling Group is a full service multimedia company, located just south of Chicago, IL. The Sterling Group offers a wide range of media solutions including Website Design, Audio / Video Recording, Editing, Mixing & Mastering, CD-ROM & DVD-ROM Programming, Software Design, CD / DVD / VHS Duplication & Replication, Custom Printing & Packaging, Graphic Design and Layout, Voice Over and much more. The Sterling Group uses all of the latest equipment and creative processes to provide the best result for your project. Our team prides itself on staying on top of the latest advancements in software and equipment, as well as being aware of what is going on in the art world today. We have developed long-term relationships with our clients and pride ourselves on our excellent customer service. Check us out on the web at www.thesterlinggroup.org or call us at (815) 462-3200. Author: thesterlinggroup Keywords: video music dance production studio Added: March 4, 2008
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Cooperative Learning Notes - Day 2
Here are my notes from today at a great Cooperative Learning workshop. I always learn so much. “I shall never think that I have arrivedlest I begin not to thinkFor things left dormant begin to rotand o’er time begin to stink.”Vicki Davis — That is me!Here are the great notes — taken directly from the Google Doc. In some places I go from notetaking to editorializing - I hope you can tell the change in tone. MaryFriend Sheperd Day 2Talked about how I presented the notes from yesterday and how things have changed. We talked about how Chrissy New Zealand left a comment yesterday on Mary Friend’s class and how we streamed it live.Lecture should not be the dominant mode of instruction although it can be used. (Clarification from yesterday.)She has us think pair share what we did yesterday (I love think pair share — use it all the time.) — here are the highlights:1- The principal of overchoice and teaching students to make a choice. (Have things where they won’t always agree with the teacher.)2 - Give one copy to the material3 - Jigsaw (from Suzanne)4 - Using pictures to teach — Washington — the power of that. (We literally all know our presidents from these drawings from the book yesterday from about a 20 minute lesson.) **Idea — sketch the graphics onto a sheet — use paint pens and paint them onto the screen. Paint it on there– paint pen the colors.** So,the process of making the large visual the kids will learn the president. (Look at the book from yesterday, Ready Set Remember by Jerry Lucas — every single elementary school library must have it — it will teach presidents and States and Capitals like nothing you’ve ever seen! Wow!– The Jerry Lucas books are unbelievable.)Great to tie curriculum together — teachers cooperate — novel from a period and history from a period.Another strategy called the 3 2 1 — It is our ticket out the door:3 - Three strategies I would like to try right away.2 - Two Ideas I have for collaboratively designing a lesson/unti using today’s strategies.1 - One strategy I want to find more about.Assessment of cooperative LearningEvaluation and assessment as you teach.Evaluation — the ongoing process - the informal observation watching students work — formative evaluation and summative assessments.Problem with assessing groups — (we’re spending a whole amount of the time discussing how to do this — the one thing is getting students to contribute equally — the key are wikis and things like Google Docs. That is the beauty of them. They allow a group - project done together but individual assessment of contribution — who added the video - who added the podcast — who edited the text. Who put in a comma and took it out and went through the motions?)There is a time to not put the strong moderate and low students together — you want to shift groups — if you always put strong, moderate, low –what is the incentive for the low performer?When you turn in group work — you don’t know who did what on the product. In cooperative learning — each student has a part of the project that they are responsible for. You’re not sitting at your desk grading papers — you’re a part of these projects. Your job is to be interacting with your students and put on foot miles while they are working with them.Dominant student — if you continue to dominate the others and do the work of the other students — you will get a zero for group participation. If you give 25% of the grade for group participation. You cannot control and dominate — you have to help everyone rise to a standard — rise to a level of performance — we have to learn how to work together. Your part may be an ace — but it will be Johnny’s part of the project. All 4 of you will edit, revise, grow, and work the product. All participants must be an equal part. The whole work should be representative of the work of everyone.6 areas to choose to evaluate cooperative learning:Teacher assess groupTeacher assess productStudent Assess Self (See rubistar.4teachers.org/index.php?screen=ShowRubric&rubric_id=1430542& See Teacher assess self rubric )Student Assess GroupGroup Assess GroupTeacher Assess StudentYou won’t use them all and there are a lot of rubrics available on the Internet for these.Rubric generators: Teachnology Rubistar Tech4LearningIf kids aren’t sharing and have problems with dominance then you see that you need team building activities. Team building helps with dominance. If you have A students are having problems with sharing and working with others — she says to give a 50 or a 0 or a shock b/c they don’t participate well in a group. (of course you can decide later to ignore it she says.) You need to work with the students. (I prefer to do it with coaching and warning and helping so the contribution level is up.)The minute you give constructive feedback - they won’t listen to the good things you say — so say good things first. Always — so they will hear it!Team Assessing Team:Topic of study:As a team, decide which answer best suits the way your team worked together and complete the remaining sentences:1- We finished our task on time and we did a good job! Yes No2 - We encouraged each other and we cooperated with each other. YES NO3 - We used quiet voices in our communications. YES NO4 - We each shared our ideas, then listen and valued each other ideas. YES NO5 - We did best at6 - Next time we could improve atGive this ahead of time to your groups for group self assessment. Tell them what you’re working on.Team Assess TeamNameteamDateProject Topic of TitleBriefly describe your contribution to the cooperative project.If you were to do this project over, what would you do differently to improve your work?How could your team work together more effectively next time?teacher CommentsAll team members sign to show their agreement with the above descirption.Final Grade (what they think they should get — you still give them a grade from the teacher — but look at this.)Laura Candler - Teaching Resources - home.att.net/~teaching)You shouldn’t do all 6 strategies at the same time. You can use a rubric or a more text form like this. You can use % (80% on product and 20% on teamwork) — or you can use a rubric. Multiple ways to assess this. You decide how you will assess. Odds are you’ll always have Teacher Assess Product — but we traditionally haven’t assessed the other five items on the list. You may choose to assess the individual in the group, the group, the student self assessment. These are your choices.Think about adding the other five to what you’re doing.What is the best way to inform the students in writing as to what you’re doing?Let them know ahead of time — hand them the rubric up front. Let them know up front. Teamwork.Before a project starts — let students have input on rubric — brainstorm and list 15 things you’ll need to do on this project — then have the teacher note it. Then pick 5 items to assess andthen that is how they assess — that is the evaluation — with ownership you have success — great idea.Group Evaluation1 - We all contributednot well ————————————————very well2 - we used quiet voices:never seldom fairly often always3. We stayed on tasksame criterail4. Something we could do better next time.This time sharing, next time something else.Social Skills ChecklistSharing listening Stays on Task Quiet Voices4 membersSharingListeningStays on TaskQuiet VoicesMember 1Member 2Member 3Member 4Grading Using Percentages ** THIS IS A GREAT EXAMPLESummary of the assessment:EvaluationBrain drain /10Sloppy Copy /40Good Copy /10Social Skills / 40Total / 100The project is here: olc.spsd.sk.ca/DE/PD/instr/strats/coop/writersworkshop.pdfWe practiced setting up STAD Long Term Cooperative Groups (Student Groups - Achievement Divisions) Based on the students averages. This is great for skills. To help the students — work together.The purpose is to help students on the lower end improve.Cooperative LearningAddresses Academic LearningAddresses Social SkillsInstructional StrategyWhat incentive do your students who are the strong students have to work with the students in this group. (I would reward everyone based on the improvement of everyone in the group.)You can average all of the grades in the group and if it comes up to an 80 average — give everyone a 5 point bonus. Work in these groups — check on the average — this is a great idea! If everyone in the class makes a __ or above then we will all get a 5 point bonus on the test. If 3 people who have never made a 100 — their groups get an extra 5 points. This gives incentives and motivations to work together. She likes to have at least 3 in a group — not being tutored — it becomes a negative — 3-4 works al ot better. Also can say if anyone gets a 5% increase in their average this week — you get a bonus this week — then the best students want the lowest students. Give them 10-15 minutes a week to work together.We are looking at the strategys — Vygotsky — people can learn one level of thinking beyond where they are — they can understand several levels above where they are — expose all students to the next level. Everyone exposed to different levels of thinking and more have strategies for solving the problem. There is a math strategy on this — 4 problems a day. Teachers call — talk about how they solved the problems - 15-20 minutes to debrief the students. Very successful on teaching these skills in the research. Numbered heads.I am going to use STAD Log term groups to encourage blog postings — I will have them in 3-4 person groups and give the groups 10-15 minutes a week. If all members of the group have done all 4 blog postings in a four week period — each of them will get 5 points on their blog posting average. I am also going to do it on another problem area — the assigned book on CD labs and assignments where they comoplete the assignments. I will give the groups 15 minutes — that way all kinds are incented to help the others have everything in. This will help me greatly.tag: cooperative learning, MaryFriend Sheperd, education, teaching, best practices, research, learning, innovationThis work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.5 License.
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